Archbishop's St. Ursula High School in Brühl

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St. Ursula High School in Brühl
Archbishop's Sankt Ursula-Gymnasium Brühl.JPG
type of school high school
School number 166893
founding 1893
address

Kaiserstrasse 22

place Bruehl (Rhineland)
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 50 '5 "  N , 6 ° 54' 10"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 50 '5 "  N , 6 ° 54' 10"  E
carrier Archdiocese of Cologne
student 1181 (Aug 1, 2010)
Teachers 75 (October 1, 2015, without trainee lawyers)
management Claire Pickartz
Website www.stursulabruehl.de

The Archbishop's St. Ursula High School in Brühl is a private, state-recognized high school and has been sponsored by the Archdiocese of Cologne since 1962 .

history

The school was founded on April 18, 1893 as a “private secondary school for girls with boarding school” and was the first secondary school for girls in what was then the district of Cologne . It was founded by the Ursulines of St. Salvator after their return from exile in the Netherlands in Roermond .

Initially, the school was located on Cölnstraße (today Kölnstraße), two years later it moved to its current location on Kaiserstraße.

In 1909 the school was officially recognized and was now called the “Boarding School and Higher School for Girls of the Ursulines of St. Salvator Brühl”. There was a development for Lyceum ten vintages, which was in 1912 again recognized by the state. During the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich , the number of female students continued to decline, up to and including the school's closure on October 1, 1944 due to the war.

On October 22, 1945 the school was reopened under the auspices of the Ursulines with 291 students as the "Lyceum of the Ursulines - Brühl near Cologne" and in 1947 it was divided into a Latin branch and a domestic branch. In 1955 a pavilion was built in the monastery garden due to lack of space. In 1962 the Archdiocese of Cologne took over the sponsorship, the expansion to a full institution up to the 13th school year was approved and from 1964 to Easter 1966 the so-called atrium was built behind the original building. 1970 to 1972 the old monastery and school building was replaced by the current administration building with school classes. From 1966 to 1976 the number of female students rose from 529 to 1,063.

In the 1979/80 school year, the all-girls school became a coeducational school with 42 boys and 99 girls in the 5th grade; accordingly, in 1988 there was the first coeducational Abitur class.

From 1996 to 1998 the classrooms in the garden pavilions were demolished and replaced by today's upper school center, which was inaugurated on November 19, 1998. The new school chapel was inaugurated on August 27, 1998.

Religious orientation

The school is run by Roman Catholics and is attended mainly by Roman Catholic children. The visit is also open to Protestant and non-Catholic children, whereby the Protestant children receive Protestant religious instruction. Other non-Catholic children take part in Roman Catholic religious instruction. According to the guiding principle of the school, a morning prayer is planned for the start of lessons. For the 5th and 6th grades there are weekly Roman Catholic school services , and for the 7th to 13th grades there are two weekly classes . Regular services are planned for special occasions. Protestant school services are held monthly.

The Catholic school chaplain is the Italian priest of the Society of Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo and Germany leader of the movement Comunione e Liberazione , Father Gianluca Carlin. The Protestant school priest is Mrs. Petzold.

Language sequence, differentiation

In the 5th school year there is a choice between English as a foreign language continued from primary school or, for children with particularly good primary school performance, participation in a Latin class with four Latin lessons per week and one English lesson per week as a continuation of primary school knowledge.

In the 6th grade the English students can choose Latin or French, for the Latin students English is expanded to a full subject with the aim of having the same level of English proficiency as the other students by the end of the 6th school year.

From grade 8 onwards, French or Latin can be started as a third language with four hours per week. As an alternative to the third foreign language, you can choose between chemistry / biology, mathematics / physics or (since 2015) geography / German in compulsory elective area II.

In the upper Italian can be learned as a third or fourth language. However, other languages ​​are not offered.

Promotion of the gifted

Particularly talented children are given special support in the Latin class, and the St. Ursula Gymnasium also takes part in the FFF (Support, Challenge, Research) program of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

Projects

Well-known politicians such as Bundestag President Norbert Lammert , EU Commissioner Günter Verheugen , Federal Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung and the Minister for Schools and Further Education and Deputy Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Sylvia Löhrmann visited the school as part of a discussion group organized by students on political topics.

In autumn 2014 the school was also visited by the world-famous pianist Kit Armstrong .

Support association

The sponsoring association emerged from a parents' initiative in 1967 to collect 1 Mark per month for each parental home in order to make smaller purchases possible without red tape. This initiative was called "Kaisertaler" after the Kaiserstraße in front of the school. In 1976 it became the “Association of Friends and Supporters of St. Ursula-Gymnasium Brühl e. V. “with 180 members at that time. This number grew to 874 by the 2006/07 school year. In total, the association provided around 465,000 euros for the school during this time.

Partner schools

The St. Ursula School maintains school partnerships with

  • Bromley High School (private girls' high school) near London
  • IISS (Istituto Istruzione Statale Superiore) "Antonio Pesenti" in Cascina , near Pisa , Italy
  • “Collège de la Retraite” in Lorient , Brittany , France
  • “Dugonics András Piarista Gimnázium” in Szeged , Hungary
  • Zuni High School (a self-administered Indian school), Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico , USA

Personalities

Graduates

Teacher

literature

  • Martin Möllmann, Ulrich Klesse, Ms. Schilde and Ms. Strack: Gratia et spes. - 100 years of the Archbishop's St. Ursula Gymnasium in Brühl 1893–1993 , self-published in Brühl (1993)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Political projects of the schoolchildren ( Memento from July 28, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ A world star enchants the students - Kit Armstrong visits St. Ursula
  3. ^ Biography ( memento from September 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at bundestag.de